Editor’s Note: Dr. Edith Bracho-Sanchez is a primary care pediatrician, director of pediatric telemedicine and assistant professor of pediatrics at Columbia University Irving Medical Center. She is ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Crawling, the first word, the first steps — these are just a few of the key milestones in early childhood development that parents ...

When you have a baby, each pediatrician appointment is filled with endless questionnaires to determine their developmental milestones. Can they smile, are they sitting up, do they point at things? I ...

Dr. Paul Lipkin specializes in Neurodevelopmental Disabilities and Developmental and Behavioral Pediatrics at the Kennedy Krieger Institute in Baltimore, where he directs medical outpatient services.

In early childhood, growth charts are used to monitor the height, weight and head circumference, serving as a screening tool to identify physical development. During this window of time, between early ...

The Center for Disease Control and Prevention and the American Academy of Pediatrics have updated their developmental milestones for children under five for the first time in years. Sarah Ryan is a ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Babies are curious about their world and want to explore. Jose Luis Pelaez Inc/DigitalVision via Getty Images Infant milestones ...

This piece is part of Scientific American's column The Science of Parenting. For more, go here. One study of children with achondroplasia found that 100 percent of them commando crawled when they ...